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Ken Cotter - Agent
Orange
Ken Cotter is an established singer and songwriter from Cork City. In September
2005 he released his new CD ‘Agent Orange’, the follow up to his debut
CD ‘Blue Letter Day’. This new collection of original songs has been
produced by Ashley Keating from Cork band The Frank and Walters and features some
of Corks premier musical talent including a very special guest appearance by Aïda
of the internationally renowned Cork band Metisse.
Ken has been performing
original songs for well over a decade and when he was based in England became
a regular performer in such venues as The Twelve Bar Club in London and The
Exchange Exeter. He has toured throughout the UK, Europe and beyond, playing
as far away as Singapore, where he has played annually for the last 7 years.
Ken has had numerous radio appearances, and recently appeared on the Swiss Italian-language
television station RTSI.
In March 2005, Ken was part of ‘The Islands of Song’ collaborative
song writing and performing event. Ken was largely responsible for organising
the Cork event (with St Patricks Festival Artistic Director Moray Bresnihan),
which saw six Newfoundland songwriters visit Ireland to work and perform with
some of Cork’s premier songwriters.
In June 2005, the
seven Cork songwriters travelled to St Johns, Newfoundland, where they played
an intensive series of gigs culminating in a gala performance in the 1000-seater
Arts and Culture Centre.
Ken’s performance
style has been described as ‘confident and mature with an obvious originality’,
while his music has been described as ‘plangently crafted fair’ by
Time Out magazine in London. The same magazine declared that ‘singer-songwriter
Cotter purveys a wonderfully assured brand of melodic songcraft’. Froots
magazine said ‘Cotter does a neat line in contemporary minstrelsy’,
while Ri Ra magazine stated that ‘..it is refreshing to hear thoughtful
treatment of contemporary issues which form the basis for a lot of the lyrical
content of the songs’.
TRACK LISTING
1. Agent Orange
2. All About Love
3. Coronation Street
4. It Just Rains Down
5. This Song Won't Protect You
6. And Again
7. Brick adn Mortar
8. 24 Hour News
9. River Valley Road
10. The Gig's Never Over
In support of
AGENT ORANGE:
Corkman Cotter
does his own neat take on indie-pop classicism.’ (Colm O Hare, HotPress).
‘Sounds totally assured’ and ‘hits all the right buttons’
- Evening Echo, Cork.
‘Magnificent Stuff’!– HotPress, Dublin. October 2005
‘Purveys a wonderfully assured brand of melodic song-craft’
- Time Out, London.
‘[With] albums due out from writers of the calibre of Ken Cotter in
the Autumn, this could turn out to be Cork’s year on the rock front’
– Jackie Hayden, HotPress, Dublin.
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